Joshua Jackson Is ‘Excited’ to Create a New Home for Daughter Juno, 4, After L.A. Fires Destroyed His Childhood House

Joshua Jackson’s home was affected by the wildfires that devastated Los Angeles — but he’s focused on the silver linings.

The actor, 46, appeared on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon on Tuesday, Mar. 4, and spoke about how his childhood home — in which he still lived with his 4-year-old daughter Juno – recently burned down during the fires in January.

“It is my childhood home, and it is the place that I’ve lived, on and off, for the last 25 years,” Jackson began. “And was, for the last four and a half years, or four and three-quarters years as she likes to tell me now, has been the place where my daughter and I, and when my wife and I were still together, where we lived. So, not great.” 

Jackson went on to say that as he looked at his home after the fires, he realized that it was no longer that same special place where he has been raising his daughter Juno, whom he shares with ex-wife Jodie Turner-Smith.

“But you know, when I went to go see it, I’m standing in front of this thing and it’s still literally smoking. And I’m looking at it, I’m like, ‘This bears no relation to my home. This is just a pile of stuff that burned in a fire,’ ” he said.

“And in some ways, I’m actually excited for the opportunity…that house has given me so much over the years, right? And I have loved it, and it has loved me. It has everything: the heartbreak, the baby, just life. All of life is in there,” Jackson continued.

“Every floorboard is a piece of my story. And I’m excited to build a new house that doesn’t have all of Daddy’s history in it, that is for her and I,” the proud dad said. “So when she grows up, every floorboard has her story in it. And so in some ways, it’s not how I would have chosen to do a remodel, but in some ways I’m actually excited about the process.”

Back in January, a rep for the Doctor Odyssey star confirmed to PEOPLE that the actor’s L.A. home was lost during the fires, which destroyed thousands of structures and left multiple residents without homes.

“First and most importantly, all the people closest to me affected by the fire are OK,” Jackson said in a statement. “My daughter, my family, my neighbors all made it out safely.”

“Sadly my beautiful home did not survive the fires,” he added. “But today, I feel incredibly lucky to be surrounded by the people I love.”